Maintenance

TransCanada PipeLines plans to remove 12 older compressors fromservice in an effort to lower maintenance costs and reduce theamount of excess pipeline capacity on its system following thestart-up of the 1.325 Bcf/d Alliance Pipeline on Dec. 1.

TransCanada PipeLines plans to remove 12 older compressors fromservice in an effort to lower maintenance costs and reduce theamount of excess pipeline capacity on its system following thestart-up of the 1.325 Bcf/d Alliance Pipeline on Dec. 1.

MRT is issuing a System Protection Warning for today throughFriday in conjunction with planned maintenance at its UnionvilleStorage Facility in North Louisiana. For today’s entire gas dayWest Line shippers west of Unionville will be limited to a maximumof 40% of their nomination. If excess volumes continue to flow intothe system during this warning, MRT said, an OFO and/or curtailmentof ISS storage injections may become necessary.

Koch Gateway will perform maintenance Tuesday on its 30-inchWest Line (Index 129) southwest of Houston from mile pole 137.34 tomile pole 148.60. Capacity southwest of the work may be reduced by100 MMcf/d that day, the pipeline said. Capacity through KochGateway’s Napoleonville (LA) Compressor Station has been cut by 100MMcf/d until further notice due to unscheduled repairs being madethere.

ANR said the start of horsepower maintenance at its St. John (IN)Compressor Station, which had been scheduled for today (see Daily GPI,Oct. 25) has been delayed untilNov. 2. However, it is still projecting completion of the work forNov. 22. There is still an associated capacity reduction of 100,000Dth/d, ANR said, but it also still thinks nomination cuts may beminimized or eliminated by cooler market area weather.

Pacific Gas & Electric had a customer-specific OFO in effectSunday but did not extend it.

Questar canceled Thursday the shut-in of its Clay Basin storagefacility that had been scheduled for Oct. 24-25. The maintenancework will be rescheduled next spring.

Due to scheduled maintenance, one compressor unit will beunavailable at Koch Gateway’s Koran (LA) Station for 30 daysstarting Oct. 2, reducing station capacity by 22 MMcf/d. Worklasting about 30 days began Tuesday on a unit at the Montpelier(LA) Station, cutting capacity on the 30-inch Kosciusko Line fromMontpelier by 50 MMcf/d.

ÿTranswestern will perform maintenance today on units atStations 1, 2 and 3, reducing West of Thoreau capacity by about100,000 MMBtu/d.